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In lugnet.announce.peeron, Dan Boger wrote:
> This is my first attempt at writing a firefox extension. It will allow looking
> up information about sets mentioned in posts on various LEGO sites. See
> screenshots, examples and install it from here:
>
> http://www.peeron.com/inv/Firefox_Extensions
>
> I hope this might be useful!
Hi Dan, I have 2 questions:
1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see
http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29&ins_qry=4884 any idea why that may be?
2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over the page
corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text on the page, and even
if it is scrollable, it's a pain to have to scroll to read something.
ROSCO
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.announce.peeron, Dan Boger wrote:
> > This is my first attempt at writing a firefox extension. It will allow looking
> > up information about sets mentioned in posts on various LEGO sites. See
> > screenshots, examples and install it from here:
> >
> > http://www.peeron.com/inv/Firefox_Extensions
> >
> > I hope this might be useful!
>
> Hi Dan, I have 2 questions:
>
> 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see
> http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29&ins_qry=4884 any idea why that may be?
> 2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over the page
> corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text on the page, and even
> if it is scrollable, it's a pain to have to scroll to read something.
3. If the link is near the right side of the page, clicking the kitty extends
the page to the right, often introducing a horizontal scrollbar. But closing the
info window does not reset the page width. Is it possible to right-align the
info window rather than increasing the page width?
ROSCO
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:28:53PM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see
> http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29&ins_qry=4884 any idea why
> that may be?
Simple - it's only set up to run on certain sites... I'll add yours to
the list though.
> 2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over
> the page corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text on
> the page, and even if it is scrollable, it's a pain to have to scroll
> to read something.
I'll look into that - if I can figure out how to do it, sure :)
> 3. If the link is near the right side of the page, clicking the kitty
> extends the page to the right, often introducing a horizontal
> scrollbar. But closing the info window does not reset the page width.
> Is it possible to right-align the info window rather than increasing
> the page width?
I noticed that - if you could help me figure out the CSS for the
peeron_popup, I'd be happy to update it. I'm still trying to figure out
all this JS/CSS stuff :)
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:28:53PM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see
> > http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29&ins_qry=4884 any idea why
> > that may be?
>
> Simple - it's only set up to run on certain sites... I'll add yours to
> the list though.
>
> > 2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over
> > the page corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text on
> > the page, and even if it is scrollable, it's a pain to have to scroll
> > to read something.
>
> I'll look into that - if I can figure out how to do it, sure :)
>
> > 3. If the link is near the right side of the page, clicking the kitty
> > extends the page to the right, often introducing a horizontal
> > scrollbar. But closing the info window does not reset the page width.
> > Is it possible to right-align the info window rather than increasing
> > the page width?
>
> I noticed that - if you could help me figure out the CSS for the
> peeron_popup, I'd be happy to update it. I'm still trying to figure out
> all this JS/CSS stuff :)
Well I'm no expert either, but there seem to be right and left CSS properties
that may be able to do it. I haven't really played with CSS much though, Tim G
would be the guy to ask.
ROSCO
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:28:53PM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > > 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see
> > > http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29&ins_qry=4884 any idea why
> > > that may be?
> >
> > Simple - it's only set up to run on certain sites... I'll add yours to
> > the list though.
> >
> > > 2. Is it possible to put the counter on the status bar instead of over
> > > the page corner? If the page is not scrollable it can obscure text on
> > > the page, and even if it is scrollable, it's a pain to have to scroll
> > > to read something.
> >
> > I'll look into that - if I can figure out how to do it, sure :)
> >
> > > 3. If the link is near the right side of the page, clicking the kitty
> > > extends the page to the right, often introducing a horizontal
> > > scrollbar. But closing the info window does not reset the page width.
> > > Is it possible to right-align the info window rather than increasing
> > > the page width?
> >
> > I noticed that - if you could help me figure out the CSS for the
> > peeron_popup, I'd be happy to update it. I'm still trying to figure out
> > all this JS/CSS stuff :)
>
> Well I'm no expert either, but there seem to be right and left CSS properties
> that may be able to do it. I haven't really played with CSS much though, Tim G
> would be the guy to ask.
>
> ROSCO
Well I was trying to do this and discovered a fairly major bug in the extension.
When trying to edit a post on jlug (phpBB) which contained a set number it found
the set number and promptly blanked the entire text edit box.
Tim
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:24:31AM +0000, Tim Gould wrote:
> Well I was trying to do this and discovered a fairly major bug in the
> extension. When trying to edit a post on jlug (phpBB) which contained
> a set number it found the set number and promptly blanked the entire
> text edit box.
Whoa! I'll take a look at that tomorrow morning. Probably could just
add "textarea" to the tags to be left alone.
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:34:05AM +0000, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:24:31AM +0000, Tim Gould wrote:
> > Well I was trying to do this and discovered a fairly major bug in
> > the extension. When trying to edit a post on jlug (phpBB) which
> > contained a set number it found the set number and promptly blanked
> > the entire text edit box.
>
> Whoa! I'll take a look at that tomorrow morning. Probably could just
> add "textarea" to the tags to be left alone.
Yup, I think that did the trick. Try the 0.5 update?
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Well I was trying to do this and discovered a fairly major bug in the
extension. When trying to edit a post on jlug (phpBB) which contained a set
number it found the set number and promptly blanked the entire text edit box.
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For some people, this would be considered a positive function of that
extension ;-)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:28:53PM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > 1. It doesn't seem to work for all pages, see
> > http://www.br-eng.info/words/?page_id=29&ins_qry=4884 any idea why
> > that may be?
>
> Simple - it's only set up to run on certain sites... I'll add yours to
> the list though.
Hmmmm, Google ads. Check out the above page now that the extension has been
available, especially the bottom left corner of the ad box. Weird.
ROSCO
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> Hmmmm, Google ads. Check out the above page now that the extension has
> been available, especially the bottom left corner of the ad box.
> Weird.
Interesting. I guess the browser treats the iframe as it's own window.
Which I guess is what it's supposed to do.
I just released 0.5, telling the extension to ignore googlesyndication
windows. Check for updates in your extension window, see if that helps.
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Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +0000, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > Hmmmm, Google ads. Check out the above page now that the extension has
> > been available, especially the bottom left corner of the ad box.
> > Weird.
>
> Interesting. I guess the browser treats the iframe as it's own window.
> Which I guess is what it's supposed to do.
>
> I just released 0.5, telling the extension to ignore googlesyndication
> windows. Check for updates in your extension window, see if that helps.
Hmmm, it's saying no updates found, I'm using 0.4.
ROSCO
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